1. Preparing and Delivering An Effective Oral Presentation
A Quick Guide

2. What This Presentation Is About
What makes a good oral presentation
Tips on preparing a presentation
Delivery of a presentation

3. Questions You Need To Ask
To whom are you presenting?
How much do they know about the topic?
How educated and/or sophisticated are they?
How large is the audience?

4. More Questions To Ask How long is the presentation?
What is the purpose of the presentation?
Inform?
Persuade?
Entertain?
What do you want to convey?

5. Know Your Subject Have something of substance to say.
Learn more than you will say.
The more you know, the more enthusiastic you will be.

6. The brain starts working the moment you’re born and never stops until you get up to speak in public. - Anonymous

7. Fear Is Good
Fear of failing
Fear of audience

8. Audience Fears Allayed
The audience doesn’t know what you intended to say or to do.
You know more about the topic than anyone in the audience.

9. Fear Is Good Fear of failing Fear of audience You should be nervous.
Adrenaline will pump you up.
You will perform better.
The audience won’t notice.

10. Elements of a Good Presentation
Clear purpose or objective
Sufficient, but not too much, information
Organized
Meets needs of audience
For the ear to hear as well as the eye to see
Stories and examples

11. Outlining Your Presentation
Methods of organization
chronological or sequential
three points
problem-cause-solution
n ways to …
Stories

12. Outlining Your Presentation

13. Opening
Crucial
Sets the tone
Need to grab audience

14. Types of Openings Preview Ask a question Ask a rhetorical question
Pose a hypothetical situation
Describe something new or dramatic
Make a startling statement

15. Delivery of a Good Presentation
Be enthusiastic
Use body language
Talk to the audience
Dress appropriately

16. Closing the Presentation
Too important to wing it
A speech is like a love affair; any fool can start one but to end it requires considerable skill. - Lord Mancraft ( )
Last chance to tell what to know and do
Direct, brief, and strong

17. Closing Styles Summarize Call to action Anecdote or story
Rhetorical question

18. Summary Elements of a good presentation
Be clear about its purpose.
Prepare.
Have an attention-getting opening.
Make the content organized and interesting.
Be enthusiastic.
Talk to the audience.
Have a memorable closing.

19. Are you prepared to do an effective oral presentation?